The depravities of capitalism, depicted as a lifesized socialist-realist diorama: "A mother is torn away from her baby so that Liu can indulge his special delight -- fresh human milk."

Dibner, Bern:MOVING THE OBELISKSM.I.T. Press, Cambridge, 1970.

World's most gruesome hernia? Try hauling a 360-ton monolith of solid granite from Heliopolis to Rome, using nothing but muscle power...

Marshall, Tim:STORM CHASE MANUALSelf-published, n.p., 1998.

Every nerdy meteorologist with a death wish keeps a copy in his glove compartment.

Arnold, Levi M.; Anna A. MacDonald (ed.):HISTORY OF THE ORIGIN OF ALL THINGS, INCLUDING THE HISTORY OF MAN, FROM HIS CREATION TO HIS FINALITY, BUT NOT TO HIS ENDReprint; Sananda & Sanat Kumara, Mt. Shasta, CA, [ca. 1970].

An ambitious but unconvincing text, purportedly acquired via divine revelation in 1851 by a foundry owner in Poughkeepsie, NY.